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The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business - Softcover

Zimbalist, Andrew

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9781592135134: The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports Business

Synopsis

This is a collection of more than 100 essays written between 1998 and 2006 on the sports industry by one of the nation's leading sports economists. Provocative, fact-filled, and tightly argued, these essays are essential reading for every sport's fan.

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About the Author

Andrew Zimbalist is Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics at Smith College. His other books include (with Stefan Szymanski) National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays Soccer and In the Best Interests of Baseball? The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Sports Economics.

From the Back Cover

"Very few academics treat sport as seriously as it deserves. And precious few of them keep their subject interesting. Andrew Zimbalist is royalty in this small kingdom." --Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization

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